3. Northern Sask. Communities In Shock After 3 Girls Take Own Lives: More than 20 y...

Northern Sask. Communities In Shock After 3 Girls Take Own Lives: More than 20 young people considered high risk

At the age of the internet and satellite TV, when you are fully aware of all the opportunities the world offers, if you were born in a small community and your elders told you that your only choice in life is to perpetuate the traditional way of life and inhabit that land over which your tribe has a claim, maybe you would be a bit depressed too.

  • How many of you left your home to go study in another city?

  • How many of you still uphold the lifestyle of your ancestors?

  • how many of you hunt, slaughter and skin your own cow when you want a steak?

Well if many of you are completely uninterested by living like your ancestors and hunting for your own food, why would it be any different for many aboriginal kids?

Suicide is the result of despair when you have reached the conclusion that your life won't improve.

As sad as it is, it is nevertheless true that many aboriginal kids want the same things we enjoy regularly and access to the same opportunities that we enjoy.

if many commit suicide, it may be because of mental health issues, but what if those "mental illnesses" are a result of a lack of opportunities?

Who knows, maybe the next Albert Einstein lives in a northern native community, but if he has no chance to study in the south, how will we ever know?

I am all in favor of the preservation of the ancestral lifestyle of the aboriginal people and of their land claims, but maybe, just maybe, it is killing their kids.

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